⚡ Blitz: Alpha 0.2.1

🩹 Hotfix Release! This patch keeps the 0.2.0 feature set intact while heavily stabilizing survival play. We've focused on smoothing out the new fluid/logistics loop, fixing micro covers, and balancing early rubber progression.

🛠️ Hotfixes & Balance Changes

💧 Fluid & Item Logistics

• Cauldron Draining: Pump pipes can now drain full water and lava cauldrons safely without deleting or corrupting the cauldron block.
• Smarter Routing: Item pipes and pump pipes now actively try compatible sided inventory faces when inserting into furnace-like targets. This greatly improves routing into blocks like the Furnace and Blast Furnace.
• Magma Former Visuals: The thermometer on the Magma Former now correctly keeps its cold blue base visible while active heat fills above it. Also fixed the front water/lava indicators so they properly render on the outer front face again.

🧱 Micro Covers

• Seamless Rendering: Standalone and pipe/cable-attached micro covers now share the exact same lighting and tint path, greatly reducing any color mismatch.
• Persistence: Micro covers now retain their source block texture even when a covered pipe or cable is broken and rebuilt. Additionally, they no longer break just because the block they were attached to was removed.
• QoL Improvements: - Middle-click (pick block) now correctly copies the targeted micro cover stack.
  • Placement logic improved: Placing a cover now uses the aimed edge, automatically falling back to the nearest free face if the clicked face is already occupied.

🌳 Rubber Age Progression

• Tool Balancing: Tree Tap durability has been reduced from 64 to 24 uses.
• Drop Rates: Rubber sapling drop rates from leaves have been reduced from 15% to 8%.
• Resin Yields: Resinous Logs now use a weighted Raw Rubber drop table instead of a flat 1-3 roll.
• Vanilla Integration: Rubber logs, stripped rubber logs, resin logs, rubber planks, and rubber saplings now properly utilize vanilla-like fuel and tag behavior.
• Trading: Wandering Traders can now occasionally offer rubber saplings.

⚙️ Compatibility & Metadata

• Version Lock: Version metadata is now strictly locked to 0.2.1-alpha across build properties and mod metadata.
• 1.21.1 Focused: Minecraft version support is locked to 1.21.1 for this hotfix to ensure total stability with current NeoForge, Patchouli, and JEI dependency lines.